Marian
@marianka9.bsky.social
Public Health Nurse, atheist, believer in vaccines, hopeful lefty (sometimes hopeful, sometimes despairing).
Living on Gadigal land in the Eora Nation.
Living on Gadigal land in the Eora Nation.
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There aren't many things I'll wax lyrical about when it comes to Australia, but I will for our non-partisan Electoral Commission, compulsory voting, ease of voting (wkend elections with booths everywhere & early and postal too), and democracy sausage setup.
#AusPol #AusVotes2025 #AusElection2025
#AusPol #AusVotes2025 #AusElection2025
April 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
There aren't many things I'll wax lyrical about when it comes to Australia, but I will for our non-partisan Electoral Commission, compulsory voting, ease of voting (wkend elections with booths everywhere & early and postal too), and democracy sausage setup.
#AusPol #AusVotes2025 #AusElection2025
#AusPol #AusVotes2025 #AusElection2025
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OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.
April 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.
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Houthi group chat: What top Trump officials claimed vs. what the texts show https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/houthi-group-chat-texts-leaked-war-plans
#axios #news #usnews
#axios #news #usnews
March 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Houthi group chat: What top Trump officials claimed vs. what the texts show https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/houthi-group-chat-texts-leaked-war-plans
#axios #news #usnews
#axios #news #usnews
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"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long, that nation will forget what it is and what it was." - Milan Kundera
March 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long, that nation will forget what it is and what it was." - Milan Kundera
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In 1943, unable to combat the Jewish resistance of the Warsaw Ghetto and its tunnel network, the German Nazis cut off the electricity, water and gas.
You really should think about employing some journalists, @australia.theguardian.com. #StopIsrael #EndTheGenocide #FreePalestine
You really should think about employing some journalists, @australia.theguardian.com. #StopIsrael #EndTheGenocide #FreePalestine
March 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
In 1943, unable to combat the Jewish resistance of the Warsaw Ghetto and its tunnel network, the German Nazis cut off the electricity, water and gas.
You really should think about employing some journalists, @australia.theguardian.com. #StopIsrael #EndTheGenocide #FreePalestine
You really should think about employing some journalists, @australia.theguardian.com. #StopIsrael #EndTheGenocide #FreePalestine
How many jobs in that “massive industry”?
60 jobs. 60.
All that pollution and environmental destruction. For 60 jobs.
60 jobs. 60.
All that pollution and environmental destruction. For 60 jobs.
The salmon industry has finally owned up and admitted that there are 60 salmon farming jobs on Tasmania's west coast, not 400, as has been often claimed.
Story in the ABC:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Story in the ABC:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Clarion call for PM to ditch plans to protect Tasmanian salmon
As the Tasmanian salmon industry battles to control the fallout from dead fish washing up on local beaches and revelations the state's environmental watchdog is clueless as to how many fish have died,...
www.abc.net.au
March 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
How many jobs in that “massive industry”?
60 jobs. 60.
All that pollution and environmental destruction. For 60 jobs.
60 jobs. 60.
All that pollution and environmental destruction. For 60 jobs.
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Military aid to Ukraine has always been a bargain for the U.S.
We degraded Russia’s armed forces and replaced our own stockpiles with brand new weapons, all while brave Ukrainians— not Americans—fought the Russians off.
Halting that aid is not only morally repulsive, it’s plain stupid.
We degraded Russia’s armed forces and replaced our own stockpiles with brand new weapons, all while brave Ukrainians— not Americans—fought the Russians off.
Halting that aid is not only morally repulsive, it’s plain stupid.
March 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Military aid to Ukraine has always been a bargain for the U.S.
We degraded Russia’s armed forces and replaced our own stockpiles with brand new weapons, all while brave Ukrainians— not Americans—fought the Russians off.
Halting that aid is not only morally repulsive, it’s plain stupid.
We degraded Russia’s armed forces and replaced our own stockpiles with brand new weapons, all while brave Ukrainians— not Americans—fought the Russians off.
Halting that aid is not only morally repulsive, it’s plain stupid.
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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We must not look away
"—I was left with an overwhelming sense of guilt that I could go back to an easy life while millions of others went to bed hungry, wondering if they would be blown to pieces overnight. This has been replaced by a deep sense of shame and embarrassment—"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode
I saw them killed by sniper fire and drones. Why doesn’t Labour condemn it? Why do arms keep flowing in Israel’s direction? asks retired professor of transplant surgery Nizam Mamode
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We must not look away
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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“He’s a cross breed of lap dog and attack dog. I got him from Rupert Murdoch, who breeds them. Not the prettiest thing, I know, but very obedient”
January 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“He’s a cross breed of lap dog and attack dog. I got him from Rupert Murdoch, who breeds them. Not the prettiest thing, I know, but very obedient”
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My latest in The Echo. The Albanese govt's reforms are not being given the credit they deserve. The focus group-driven mantra of a ‘do nothing’ govt cannot be sustained if our erstwhile political commentators bothered to look at what the govt has actually done #auspol www.echo.net.au/2025/01/main...
Mainstream media fails to mention positive Labor policies
The new year in Australian politics, an all-important election year, began on a high with a host of Albanese government policy initiatives taking effect from January 1, 2025.
www.echo.net.au
January 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
My latest in The Echo. The Albanese govt's reforms are not being given the credit they deserve. The focus group-driven mantra of a ‘do nothing’ govt cannot be sustained if our erstwhile political commentators bothered to look at what the govt has actually done #auspol www.echo.net.au/2025/01/main...
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✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨
January 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨
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Yesterday, a convicted felon confessed to the world that, with help from a S. African tech oligarch's proficiency w/vote counting machines, he won the presidency.
Today, that oligarch thanked the ppl for helping him facilitate the win, punctuating it with a Sieg Heil.
And everyone shrugged.
Again.
Today, that oligarch thanked the ppl for helping him facilitate the win, punctuating it with a Sieg Heil.
And everyone shrugged.
Again.
January 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Yesterday, a convicted felon confessed to the world that, with help from a S. African tech oligarch's proficiency w/vote counting machines, he won the presidency.
Today, that oligarch thanked the ppl for helping him facilitate the win, punctuating it with a Sieg Heil.
And everyone shrugged.
Again.
Today, that oligarch thanked the ppl for helping him facilitate the win, punctuating it with a Sieg Heil.
And everyone shrugged.
Again.
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No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.
January 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.
12:15 am - just had to evacuate the bedroom bc we woke to the sound of a bat trapped between the internal blinds and the window. Can’t open the window without risking contact with the bat. Also there’s an insect screen on the outside of the window. Not sure what to do. Lyssavirus rightly scares me 🦇
January 7, 2025 at 3:09 AM
12:15 am - just had to evacuate the bedroom bc we woke to the sound of a bat trapped between the internal blinds and the window. Can’t open the window without risking contact with the bat. Also there’s an insect screen on the outside of the window. Not sure what to do. Lyssavirus rightly scares me 🦇
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News.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
December 17, 2024 at 8:56 PM
News.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
Tonight! Lazybones Lounge, Marrickville. A bunch of the best young jazz musicians raising the roof for the best cause #BehindtheBear
December 16, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Tonight! Lazybones Lounge, Marrickville. A bunch of the best young jazz musicians raising the roof for the best cause #BehindtheBear
Jazz at Rainbow Crossing, Summer Hill last night. A trio of 18 year olds, fresh out of high school. They were wonderful and happy and it was such a lovely evening. (Disclaimer: one of them is my son 🙂)
December 16, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Jazz at Rainbow Crossing, Summer Hill last night. A trio of 18 year olds, fresh out of high school. They were wonderful and happy and it was such a lovely evening. (Disclaimer: one of them is my son 🙂)